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Christopher Stewart Gray was born in Kansas City, Missouri on April 24, 1950. He received a bachelor's degree in art history from the School of General Studies at Columbia University in 1975. Soon afterward, he opened the Office for Metropolitan History. This was a research bureau for hire that mostra altro determined a building's provenance by poring over deeds, street atlases, directories, microfilm, and old photographs. He began writing a column for Avenue magazine in 1980 and another one for House and Garden in 1982. He wrote the Streetscapes column in The New York Times from 1987 to 2014. A collection of his columns entitled New York Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buildings and Landmarks was published in 2003. He died from pneumonia complicated by an unspecified underlying illness on March 10, 2017 at the age of 66. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Over the years I've given at least a dozen different architectural walking tours in New York, adding a new one every year or two. When researching the tours I like to find relevant books on a neighborhood's history in order to provide a decent historical context to the contemporary buildings I focus on. For a tour of 57th Street spanning its whole length, I was fortunate to find this book by the late, great Christopher Gray, which is about the small neighborhood overlooking the East River.

Across nine chapters Gray describes the history of the residential neighborhood's development, which managed to grow in its location due to its height on bluffs above the East River, an elevation that made it inhospitable for industrial uses. Over the decades the area was impacted greatly by two transportation conduits: Queensboro Bridge and FDR Drive. The latter, in particular, was accommodated through the difference between the streets and river, such that a series of plazas -- and even buildings -- bridge over the drive. Beyond these two elements, Gray manages to find many aspects of the small neighborhood that make it worthy of a compact history.… (altro)
 
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